Heritage Under Threat from Disaster and Conflicts: Preparedness and Learning
World Heritage Webinar
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April 18, 2025 – 1:00 – 2:00 PM (ET)
This webinar will be held on April 18th at 1pm ET (10am PT) in honor of the International Day of Monuments and Sites (IDMS). This year’s IDMS theme is “Heritage Under Threat from Disaster and Conflicts: Preparedness and Learning”, which is why we thought it appropriate to discuss recovery efforts after the wildfires in Lahaina and Los Angeles. During this webinar, we will be joined by Denise Antolini, who was on the Hawaii Governor’s Climate Advisory Team created in part to address the challenges and lessons learned from the Lahaina fire and other disasters in Maui/Hawaii. Joining us from Architectural Resources Group are Katie Horak and Morgan Quirk who will share current efforts, challenges, and lessons being learned from the 14 destructive wildfires affecting Los Angeles and San Diego, California.
Denise Antolini – Denise Antolini has more than 30 years of experience in the environmental law field in Hawai‘i. She retired in 2023 as Professor of Law Emerita from the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is active in North Shore community and environmental issues.
Katie Horak – Katie Horak is an architectural historian and principal at Architectural Resources Group, an architecture and planning firm in Los Angeles that focuses on the historic built environment. In addition, Katie is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC, where she teaches graduate-level courses in historic site documentation in the Heritage Conservation program. She is the current President of Docomomo US and the founding President of the Southern California Chapter of Docomomo US.
Morgan Quirk – Morgan is an architectural historian in Architectural Resources Group’s Portland, Oregon office who specializes in data and mapping analysis, with particular interests in cultural heritage and representation. She has experience working on cultural resource documentation and evaluation, preservation planning, and environmental review and compliance projects. Her expertise in GIS includes map production; remote data collection and analysis; geodatabase management; historic resource inventories; digitization of historic data; and web mapping applications.